Each time and location below corresponds to an official Microsoft Windows Vista Launch Event.

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Please note that the times were calculated using local times. If you are planning on going to one of these events, please double check the date & time using [http://vanishingpointgame.com/circumambulation/ the countdown], and the [http://stackoverflow.org/tools/timer.php Countdown Predictor] (or your own calculations), as mistakes do happen. Unfortunatley. :)

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada]==
'''Date & Time:''' Monday, 8 January 2007, 6:30:00 pm, PST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' Fountains at Bellagio

'''Who's Going:''' Konamouse, Konashark, GIIRyudo

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles Los Angeles, California]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 13 January 2007, 9:00:00 am, PST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' Randomeis, labfly, Patricia Moore, Dr. Kinder, Ms. Gwyn

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney Sydney, Australia]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 13 January 2007, 8:00:00 am, AEDT (Local Time)

' ' ' Suspect someone forgot about the DateLine - Countdown would be Sun-14th''

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' ''Nobody yet''

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami Miami, Florida]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 13 January 2007, 4:00:00 pm, EST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' ''Nobody yet''

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin%2C_Texas Austin, Texas]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 13 January 2007, 3:00:00 pm, CST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' Incitatus, Boy Blue, EarlyWyrm

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%2C_Arizona Phoenix, Arizona]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 13 January 2007, 2:02:00 pm, MST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' MisterAnderson

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Singapore]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 20 January 2007, 8:30:00 pm, SST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' ''Nobody yet''

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%2C_Germany Berlin, Germany]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 20 January 2007, 6:00:00 pm, UTC+1 (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' ''Nobody yet''

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London London, England]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 20 January 2007, 6:00:00 pm, GMT (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' Ruuku & The Cliff, Jenna, Rob, spysect

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto Toronto, Canada]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 20 January 2007, 7:00:00 pm, EST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' SirQuady, thebruce (tentative), Dionysus (tenative)

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%2C_California San Francisco, California]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 20 January 2007, 7:00:00 pm, PST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' dmax (tentative), BBQedPizza

==[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle Seattle, Washington]==
'''Date & Time:''' Saturday, 27 January 2007, 6:00:00 pm, PST (Local Time)

'''Exact Location:''' ''Unknown''

'''Who's Going:''' Panzerlied, SuperRob, Accipitridae

2006-12-26T02:17:03Z

SirQuady:

This is a wiki focused around the Vanishing Point website at http://vanishingpointgame.com/

In order to edit pages, you will need to create an account and log in. If you would like to practice editing pages, try doing so on the [[Meta:Sandbox|Sandbox]] page.

==Content==
* A mysterious ad on the [[IE Blog]] leads to a countdown timer
* The [[Countdown]] page asks for keys
** Several [[Keys]] have been found
** At least one key was solved by using the contents of a [[Puzzle Box Package]] that was mailed to an individual

==Resources==

'''Sites'''
* [http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17768 Unfiction]
* [http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=523893&st=150 Neowin Forums]

'''Chat'''
* IRC on #vanishing at irc.chat-solutions.org

'''Publicity'''
* Threads on Digg
** http://digg.com/gadgets/Solve_Microsoft_s_Vanishing_Point_mystery
** http://digg.com/software/Vanishing_Point_The_Game
** http://digg.com/tech_news/VanishingPointGame_com
* ARGNet Article
** http://www.argn.com/archive/000511the_vanishing_point.php

Countdown

2006-12-26T02:15:29Z

SirQuady: /* Decompiling */

==Page==
At the time of writing, http://vanishingpointgame.com/ is mainly a countdown timer and text entry box:

[[Image:Countdown.png]]

Typed out (so that Google can index), the text is:
<pre>VANISHING
POINT

IF YOU HAVE A KEY, ENTER IT BELOW:
[text box and submit button]

Come back when the countdown timer reaches the vanishing point.

[time]</pre>

The timer is counting down to 6:30PM on Jan 8th 2007 <ref>http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=290725#290725</ref> and the text box accepts a number of [[Keys]].

<references/>

==Keys==

The keys have now been moved to [[Keys|their own page]]. If you enter an incorrect key, the following message is returned to you: ''Incorrect key. If you're stumped, try searching online for the tag "vanishingpoint" to see if other players have figured it out.''

==Decompiling==
Decompiling Flash is always a controversial topic. In some cases, it will provide answers without doing the work to get those answers--thereby cheating players out of a solving experience. When a Flash file is written "correctly," it is just a GUI interface to a server-side component and does not reveal any secrets. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to determine what kind of Flash file it is until it has been decompiled. In the case of this Flash file, quite a lot of it is obfuscated, making most of the decompilation useless without a lot of extra work. Some of the modules indicate client-server communication, pointing to a "well written" Flash (i.e. one that decompiling doesn't reveal any secrets.) Because of the work involved in further decompilation and the modules pointing to client/server communication, this author (-Brian) is not going to take the decompilation any further.

First of all, it looks like something is going to happen at The Bellagio. I'm assuming this will be revealed at the end of the countdown:

[[Image:Bellagio.png]]

Reprinted as text for proper Google indexing:
<blockquote>REMEMBER...<br />
Big things come in big packages:
January 8th, 6:30PM, Bellagio Fountains.</blockquote>

Second, the countdown looks like it is hitting a URL at 42 Entertainment for synchronization:

<blockquote><nowiki>_constantPool "_global" "CountDownTimer" "homeurlparam" "homeUrl" "/now.asmx?WSDL" "webServicen" "mx" "services" "WebService" "http://stagessl.42entertainment.com:20000/preawareness/now.asmx?WSDL" "thisCountDownTimer" "Date" "getFullYear" "MovieClip" "prototype" "CountDown" "objServicen" "ml" "sc" "mn" "hr" "dy" "mo" "yr" "ServerTime" "onResult" "returnSerial" "eventMillisecs" "timeToWaitMillisecs" "getTime" "localEventMillisecs" "correctionMillisecs" "onFault" "onEnterFrame" "remaining" " " "msecs" "launch" "gotoAndStop" "secs" "Math" "floor" "mins" "hours" "days" "toString" "length" "0" ":" "" "ASSetPropFlags"</nowiki></blockquote>

This connection to 42 Entertainment appears to have been confirmed by Jordan Weisman during [http://www.corprew.org/2006/12/07/alternate-reality-games-jordan-weisman-dorkbot-seattle-200612/ his session on ARGs at Dorkbot in Seattle]